The Church needs mystics again. Not fringe figures, but saints ablaze with love.

God chooses to clothe himself in promises and hides himself in his word.

This is the second installment in our series, From Eden to Easter: Life and Death in the Garden. Each day throughout Holy Week, we will take a special look at the gardens and wildernesses of Scripture, and in particular, these scenes' connections to Christ's redemption won for us on the cross.

In the Bible, we meet the God who also does not prance around naked as a jaybird.

In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.

Hidden beneath the sinner is a glorious saint. Jesus has declared it to be so in your baptism.

A theologian is a passive receiver of God’s active revelation about Jesus Christ, his words, works, and ways.

You are a child of God. You’re blameless, holy, perfect, and righteous. Don’t feel that way? Too bad. God is greater than your heart.

God’s goodness spoke a promise of peace and mercy to the bewildered, a promise that rings out to this day.

God excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.

“God in general” is of little use to all of us suffering the ravages of sin, the fear of death, and satanic prosecution.

The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.